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J. C. Ice

Australian-American professional wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ6146854 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Dundee (né Cruickshanks; born 5 July 1971) is an Australian-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the United States Wrestling Association (USWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under the ring name J. C. Ice as one half of the tag team PG-13. He is also known for his appearances on the independent circuit under the ring name Jamie Dundee.

Early life

Dundee was born James Cruickshanks in Sydney on 5 July 1971. He is the son of Scottish-Australian professional wrestler Bill Dundee and the brother-in-law of professional wrestler Bobby Eaton.

Professional wrestling career

Cruickshanks was trained to wrestle by his father Bill Dundee and debuted in 1988 in USA Championship Wrestling in Knoxville, Tennessee, a split off from Continental Wrestling in Alabama. In the promotion, he was a manager for the Rock 'n' Roll RPMs (Mike Davis and Tommy Lane). He also fought with The Riches (Johnny and Davey) and the Armstrongs. He wrestled alongside his father in Memphis under the ring name Jamie Dundee. Some months prior to his ring debut, he participated in an angle in which he was brutalized at a TV taping by Sid Vicious.

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“J. C. Ice” enters the record as australian-American professional wrestler. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Australian-American, professional and wrestler can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1988—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1971-07-05, 1971-06-17—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Australian-American, professional and wrestler.
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“J. C. Ice” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Australian-American, professional and wrestler provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6146854. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1988.

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